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Can you say, “massive, overweening chutzpah?” With 14 million Americans still out of work, Congress is seeking $550 million for eight new aircraft that would increase the fleet the Air Force uses to ferry senators and representatives to war zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan as well less dangerous ...
Congress, Stimulus, Economy, Private Jets, Spendthrift, Hypocrisy, Corruption
To no one’s surprise, the Senate has voted to confirm Sonia Sotomayor’s appointment to the Supreme Court, making her the third female justice in US history.
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Onion, Humor, Congress, Politicians, Economy, Gold, recession, Coup, Video
Here’s the list of eligible clunkers, as Congress pumps $2 billion more into the program: Full List Of Disqualified Cars Under Cash For Clunkers Refresh.
Word is just coming across the wires that the Senate Judiciary Panel has approved Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court...
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham now says he’s going to support Sonia Sotomayor. WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says he’ll vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, breaking with his party’s conservative leaders. The South Carolinian had hinted during Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings that he might back President Barack Obama’s ...
Sen. Jeff Sessions (who has no earlobes, by the way) says the GOP won’t block the vote on Sotomayor’s nomination. Shortly before the committee concluded its questioning of Sotomayor, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the panel’s senior GOP member, told Sotomayor he would “look forward to you getting that vote” ...
As we round the corner into day four of the Sotomayor confirmation hearings, even the Republicans on the committee are beginning to admit that they’ve got nothing. We’ve reached a point, here on Day 4 of the Sonia Sotomayor hearings, where some Republicans have acknowledged that when they sift ...
The latest Rasmussen poll shows 90% of voters expect Sonia Sotomayor to be confirmed. Following the first two days of confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor, voters overwhelmingly expect her to be confirmed for the U.S. Supreme Court but remain divided as to whether she should be. Ninety percent ...
Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Confirmation, Congress, Poll
Day three of the Sotomayor confirmation hearings has begun; here’s our live feed from Senate.gov, as the Republicans on the panel continue hammering away (a futile endeavor) at the “wise Latina” remark, and try to back Sotomayor into a corner on the abortion issue. [Live video moved to more recent ...
Here’s MSNBC’s video of Lindsey Graham grilling Sonia Sotomayor over her “wise Latina” comment in a speech to Duke University students. [Video]
Andrew Malcolm and associates have been doing a great job of live-blogging the Sotomayor hearing at Top of the Ticket, including posting transcripts of Sen. Jon Kyl’s rambling, digressing, endless questions, which is above and beyond the call of duty: Sotomayor hearings: Graham comes out swinging. Here’s the live video ...
Here we go; the extreme wing of the anti-abortion movement has been whipping itself into a lather over Sonia Sotomayor, and they apparently managed to sneak at least two people into the hearing: Second Antiabortion Heckler Interrupts Sotomayor Hearing. Another antiabortion activist disrupted the confirmation hearing of Judge Sonia ...
Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Confirmation, Congress, Abortion, Randall Terry
Here’s a live stream of the Sotomayor confirmation hearing; so far I still haven’t seen the evidence that she’s a sekrit radical judicial activist... [Live video moved to most recent post...]
If you think Sonia Sotomayor is a judicial activist and radical leftist, you’re not going to find evidence for it in her opening statement: Sotomayor hearings: The judge’s own opening statement. In the past month, many Senators have asked me about my judicial philosophy. It is simple: fidelity to ...
Oh boy! Several days of political grandstanding and opportunistic pandering, masquerading as a “confirmation hearing!” I know you’re as excited as I am. Andrew Malcolm has the opening statements from the usual raft of blowhards: Sotomayor hearing: All senators’ opening statement texts: Leahy, Sessions, et al.
The news today on that increasingly weird CIA scandal is that the agency withheld information about a secret program from Congress for years on direct orders from Dick Cheney. The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from ...
Hey, I don’t see why this wouldn’t work. [Video]
Onion, Humor, Congress, Politicians, Economy, Gold, recession
A congressional resolution to condemn Iran’s brutal crackdown on demonstrators was passed by a nearly unanimous vote—405 to 1. And of course, the lone dissenting vote was cast by Uncle Ron. The only vote against the resolution was cast by Representative Ron Paul, who although a Republican considers himself ...
Ron Paul, Iran, Congress, Paleolibertarian, Barack Obama, Isolationism
Instantly classic video blogging from the Hawk del Iowa. [Video]
Economy, Budget, Nancy Pelosi, Congress, Auto Industry, Humor, Iowahawk
Wow. Ninety to six. The honeymoon is over for Barack Obama and Congress: Senate votes to block funds for Guantanamo closure. WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major rebuke to President Barack Obama, the Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to block the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to the United States ...
Guantanamo Bay, Terrorism, Military Tribunals, Barack Obama, Congress
I think I saw this kid at the supermarket the other day... [Video]
Mike Huckabee is appearing on the Sean Hannity show on Fox News tonight, to throw some more red meat to fundamentalist zealots with his cretinous claim that the stimulus bill persecutes Christians. Never mind that pesky Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Huckabee wants to ...
Economy, Finance, Business, Democrats, Congress, Pork, Stimulus, Establishment Clause, Mike Huckabee